Kafkaesque UK /ˌkæfkəˈʔɛsk/US /ˌkɑfkəˈʔɛsk/ adjective3 •Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.In the end, Jesus is not only a Kafkaesque, lonely, holy man, abandoned in his death and despised by his own people, but his teaching is not even considered to be like that of the Jewish Sages. — 2001 •Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger. •In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka. formsmore Kafkaesque · most Kafkaesque